Aeronautics Act (1985)
Medical and Optometric Information
Minister to be provided with information
6.5 (1) Where a physician or an optometrist believes on reasonable grounds that a patient is a
flight crew member, an air traffic controller or other holder of a Canadian aviation
document that imposes standards of medical or optometric fitness, the physician or
optometrist shall, if in his opinion the patient has a medical or optometric condition that is
likely to constitute a hazard to aviation safety, inform a medical adviser designated
by the Minister forthwith of that opinion and the reasons therefor.
Patient to advise
(2) The holder of a Canadian aviation document that imposes standards of medical or
optometric fitness shall, prior to any medical or optometric examination of his person by a
physician or optometrist, advise the physician or optometrist that he is the holder
of such a document.
Use by Minister
(3) The Minister may make such use of any information provided pursuant to subsection
(1) as the Minister considers necessary in the interests of aviation safety.
No proceedings shall lie
(4) No legal, disciplinary or other proceedings lie against a physician or optometrist for
anything done by him in good faith in compliance with this section.
Information privileged
(5) Notwithstanding subsection (3), information provided pursuant to subsection (1) is
privileged and no person shall be required to disclose it or give evidence relating to it in
any legal, disciplinary or other proceedings and the information so provided shall not be
used in any such proceedings.
Deemed consent
(6) The holder of a Canadian aviation document that imposes standards of medical or
optometric fitness shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to have consented to
the giving of information to a medical adviser designated by the Minister under subsection (1) in the circumstances referred
to in that subsection.
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